Comparing eBay and COMC Fees for Selling Sports Cards

Two of the biggest sports card marketplaces around

This article attempts to make clear the fee structures for selling sports cards on eBay vs selling on COMC.

Understanding the fees structures of both COMC and eBay is actually not just a straightforward thing, because there are so many different kinds of mini-fees for both of them.

I’ll start off by just showing the actual different fees and then do a break down on what that means in a couple of concrete examples, just so that we can see how the fee structures play out in different scenarios.

Alright, so first just a brief overview of the fees for each. Let’s start with eBay.

Ebay Fees

1) Transaction Fee

The main fee that eBay charges is going to be the 13.25% + $0.30 per sale for trading cards. This is the basic main fee that most people know about.

But let’s look at insertion fees next, because this can be a bit of a minefield.

2) Insertion Fee

There is no insertion fee for the first 250 cards per month, but after that there is a fee of $0.35 per card to create a listing (auction or buy it now). This extra fee…